China Says Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources - eviltoast
China Says It Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources
www.bloomberg.com
A Chinese state-backed institution has devised a way to identify users who send messages via Apple Inc.’s popular AirDrop feature, Beijing’s government claims, as part of broader efforts to root out undesirable content.
  • jucktion@kbin.social
    8·
    10 months ago

    Anyone know how this would work? Is this during the transfer or after the transfer? The article isn’t clear and there isn’t any other source.

    If it is after, couldn’t Apple just remove any traces of the origin?